Nostr doesn't have a YouTube-style platform because developers have tried building them in the past, but hardly anyone used them. Most ended up filled with low-effort short clips instead of quality, long-form content.

Many of these platforms also had a 100 MB upload limit, which made them impractical for serious video creators.

The bigger problem is that Nostr simply doesn't have the user base to sustain a YouTube alternative yet. Creators who produce high-quality videos need affordable hosting, and that isn't easy to find. You end up with a platform with two active uploaders, barely any viewers, and not enough zaps to cover the hosting costs.

I don't think Nostr is ready for a YouTube-style platform. The economics just don't work yet.

For example, I have over 1 TB of recorded livestreams. I'd love to make them available, but hosting that much video, especially with bandwidth costs, is simply too expensive.

Until Nostr has more users, affordable video hosting, and a way for creators to cover their costs, these platforms will struggle to survive and worse, we can't compete with YouTube and Rumble who had deep pockets.